Minneapolis City Council President: Ability to Call Police for Crime is ‘Privilege’

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‘I guess I always knew it was a foolish idea, but I didn’t realize it was this deadly….’

Minneapolis City Council President: It's a 'Privilege' to Call the Police
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) When asked how Minneapolis would keep its citizens safe without a police department, city council president Lisa Bender claimed that expecting emergency assistance is a “privilege.”

The Minneapolis City Council voted this weekend to begin dismantling its police department and to replace it with a system that “actually keeps us safe.”

But, as CNN anchor Alysin Camerota pointed out, some people are nervous that a law-enforcement absence could jeopardize their rights.

“For instance, what if, in the middle of the night, my home is broken into,” Camerota said. “Who do I call?”

Bender replied: “Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know that that comes from a place of privilege. Because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.”

Study after study, however, proves that minority neighborhoods are more dependent on law enforcement, which means that eliminating law enforcement would hurt minorities more.

Harvard economist Roland Fryer found in 2018, for example, that the less contact police had with minority neighborhoods, the higher the homicide rates were, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“I never would have guessed that if police stopped putting in the effort, that homicides would change like this,” Fryer said. “You hear some people say ‘Oh, we want to police our own neighborhoods, get out.’ No, you don’t want that. I guess I always knew it was a foolish idea, but I didn’t realize it was this deadly.”

However, the move to defund or abolish the Minneapolis department is far from assured. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has already said he does not support the full abolition of the police department and that he will fight the city council’s attempts to remake it.

NC Venue Defies Gov.'s Shutdown Mandate by Declaring Itself a 'Peaceful Protest'

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‘ACE Speedway has continuously and flagrantly violated the plain and unambiguous language of the phase 2 order…’

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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Ace Speedway in North Carolina opened its 2,500-person race venue on Saturday in defiance of Gov. Roy Cooper‘s order, declaring the event to be a “peaceful protest of injustice and inequality everywhere.”
The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said its officials would determine the “merits” of Ace Speedway’s claim that a race is a peaceful protest, WFMY reported.
Ace Speedway’s defiance comes as bureaucrats, public health “experts,” and the corporate media have demonstrated that coronavirus restrictions apply only to groups that ideologically oppose them.
Cooper sent a letter to Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson on Friday and asked him to enforce his executive decree, which limits outside gatherings to 25 people, unless that gathering is for an ideologically approved purpose.
The order also mandates physical distancing from fellow citizens.
“ACE Speedway has continuously and flagrantly violated the plain and unambiguous language of the phase 2 order,” wrote William McKinney, counsel to the governor’s office, in the letter.
He said the venue’s events pose “a serious risk to the health of people in Alamance County and throughout the state.”
Johnson initially said he would not enforce Cooper’s decree because of the First Amendment, which gives citizens the right to assemble without restriction.
Then he backtracked and said he would ask Ace Speedway to halt future events.
The venue held another event, and Johnson did not enforce the governor’s order.
Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter protesters have gathered in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill without interruption or threat from the governor, The News and Observer reported. And Cooper himself walked with demonstrators last week, without wearing a mask or social distancing.
Yet, Cooper called the race event at Ace Speedway on May 23, which drew about 2,250 people, “dangerous and reckless.”

Trump Says He'll Support Any Candidate w/ a 'Pulse' Against RINO Sen. Murkowski

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‘Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing…’

(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) After Sen. Lisa Murkowski‘s, R-Alaska, said she is “struggling” to support President Donald Trump, he said he will support any candidate with a “pulse” against her in 2020, CBS News reported.
Murkowski made the comments in response to Gen. James Mattis, who put out a statement in which he called Trump a threat to the Constitution. Mattis blamed Trump for dividing the country.
She said Mattis’s criticism of Trump was “true  and honest, and necessary and overdue,” despite nearly identical criticisms being lobbed at the president on a daily basis.
Trump responded on Twitter.


In the immediate aftermath of the nation-rending vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—in which Murkowski was the only GOP senator to vote against him, Alaska’s most famous Republican female politician, Sarah Palin, hinted at the possibility of a run.


Murkowski came to hold Alaska’s Senate seat from her father, Frank Murkowski.
Frank held one of Alaska’s Senate seats from 1981 to 2002. Alaskans elected him to be governor in 2002.
When Frank vacated his Senate seat, he appointed Lisa.
Lisa Murkowki won reelection in 2004, but she faced a strong primary challenger, Joe Miller, in 2010.
Miller—a Tea Party candidate endorsed by then Gov. Palin—won the Republican primary, but Murkowski refused to exit the race.
She won a write-in campaign in the general election with strong support from unions and PACs.
Murkowski won both the Republican primary and the general election by wide margins in 2016. She did not endorse Trump.

Al Gore Salutes NJ Gov. for Indoctrinating Kindergartners in Climate Activism

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‘The adoption of these standards is much more than an added educational requirement; it is a symbol of a partnership between generations…’

Al Gore Salutes New Jersey for Mandating Climate Change for Kindergarteners
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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) Al Gore will never be president of the United States. Instead, his legacy will be cashing in on the climate change debate.

On Thursday, Gore scored his latest climate-celebrity moment when he praised New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife, both fellow Democrats, for mandating climate change education in K-12 public schools, including for children as young as 5 years old.

“I am incredibly proud that New Jersey is the first state in the nation to fully integrate climate education in their K-12 curricula,” Gore said.

“This initiative is vitally important to our students as they are the leaders of tomorrow, and we will depend on their leadership and knowledge to combat this crisis,” he added.

New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy spearheaded the public relations outreach for the radical curriculum, and the State Board of Education adopted Gov. Murphy’s new education proposal this week.

The proposal was supposedly inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and climate change walkouts in schools across the U.S. and Europe last year.

The program will affect 1.4 million students and go into effect in 2021.

But the plan doesn’t just involve pushing climate change in science classes, but also in social studies, technology, visual and performing arts, foreign languages and physical education.

“In New Jersey, we have already begun to experience the effects of climate change, from our disappearing shorelines, to harmful algal blooms in our lakes, superstorms producing torrential rain, and summers that are blazing hot,” said Tammy Murphy.

“The adoption of these standards is much more than an added educational requirement; it is a symbol of a partnership between generations,” she said.

Course planning details will begin to be developed in the coming months, though the recent guidelines suggest middle and high school students will be using information derived from government agencies.

Elementary school children and kindergartners will participate in climate change-related activities, such as building “a schoolyard habitat to see what improvements need to be made to guard plants, animals and humans from the effects of a warming planet.”

LEGO Suspends Advertising for Police Toys and Others During Activist 'Blackout'

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‘We ought to stress the good in law enforcement for kids…’

LEGO Stops Advertising for Police, Fire, & Rescue Toys During BLM Blackout
LEGO DUPLO’s “retired” Police Patrol play-set / PHOTO: Lego.com

(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) The LEGO Group told a marketing company to suspend advertising during last week’s #BlackOutTuesday for more than 30 building sets, minifigures, and accessories that are related to police officers and firefighters.
The LEGO Affilitate Team, which manages online advertising, sent an email to Rakuten Linkshare with the names of the product listings that the company wants removed, Toybook reported.
A statement from a LEGO spokesperson indicates that advertising for these products will resume.
“We requested that our affiliate partners refrain from posting promotional LEGO content as part of our decision to respect #BlackOutTuesday and pause posting content on our social media channels in response to the tragic events in the US,” the spokesperon said.
“We regret any misunderstanding and will ensure that we are clearer about our intentions in the future,” said the statement.
LEGO embraced the Black Lives Matter movement and promised to educate children about “racial equality” in a tweet.


President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted about LEGO’s decision, but he did not know that the advertising freeze was temporary.


Twitter user @BrickLoftOrg questioned LEGO’s decision.

Corporate Watchdog Confronts Netflix Board Over Black Lives Matter Support

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‘Netflix clearly has no idea about the origins or intentions of Black Lives Matter…’

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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) A corporate watchdog last week crashed Netflix‘s annual shareholder meeting and confronted its board of directors about its support for Black Lives Matter and the related protests that have led to nationwide riots and looting.

The group, known as the National Center for Public Policy Research, also confronted the online streaming giant’s top brass about its refusal to protect employees who might disagree with far-left wing politics.

It further asked why Susan Rice, former President Barack Obama’s controversial national security advisor, now sits on the company’s board, despite zero experience in video production, online streaming or corporate management.

“Netflix clearly has no idea about the origins or intentions of Black Lives Matter,” said Justin Danhof, general counsel and director of the NCPR’s Free Enterprise Project.

“If they do know the full story of Black Lives Matter and still support the Communist-inspired agitators, that’s even more abhorrent,” he said.

“Does Netflix CEO Reed Hastings remember when Black Lives Matter closed highways in Minnesota chanting vile phrases aimed at the police including ‘pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon’? I sure do,” Danhof explained on the record.

Hastings, a prominent Democrat donor, had zero response.

Danhof also cited the widespread looting of businesses, torched police vehicles, and the desecration of monuments, historic landmarks and churches—all of which Netflix refused to condemn.

“All sane people, including us at the National Center, condemn the killing of George Floyd and support black communities, but that’s not what the Black Lives Matter movement stands for,” he said.

Scott Shepard, program director for the Center’s Free Enterprise Institute, asked Hastings about specifically about Susan Rice’s role in the company, but Hastings again failed to answer.

Rice’s only known connection with video-streaming platforms, prior to her appointment to Netflix’s board, was her later-discredited scapegoating of a YouTube video, which she accused of starting the deadly uprisings at the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya.

“Now it appears she is becoming increasingly embroiled, along with other members of the Obama Administration, in a Watergate-style scandal of massive election and post-election corruption,” he said, referring to the Department of Justice investigation into the FBI’s Russia-collusion conspiracy and the recent dismissal of charges against Rice’s White House successor, Gen. Michael Flynn.

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Michael Flynn, the incoming national security adviser, poses with his Obama administration predecessor, Susan Rice, who may have been complicit in Flynn’s framing by the FBI. / IMAGE: Fox Business via YouTube

“Given this, and Rice’s already deeply polarizing place in American life, has not the time come to cut ties with her?” Shepard asked.

Notably, Netflix investors voted to reject Rice as a corporate board member last year but she received the influential position anyway.

Shortly after Rice’s appointment, Netflix signed a multi-series development deal with the Obamas worth an estimated $50 million.

The deal was linked to a quid-pro-quo arrangement involving Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s creative content chief, whose wife, Nicole Avant, served as Obama’s ambassador to the Bahamas. Both were major Obama fudraisers and donors.

Shepard offered that perhaps Rice’s board seat was, likewise, tied to securing a Netflix-produced documentary about the Obamas. That film was released a year ago.

More recently, the platform streamed another documentary on former First Lady Michelle Obama’s experiences on the road last year while promoting her memoir.

Some have speculated that Michelle Obama may secretly be harboring political ambitions and that the Netflix programming the Obamas develop would be strategically timed to function, effectively, as campaign material while skirting campaign finance laws.

D.C. Mayor Tries Trolling Trump by Painting Giant 'Black Lives Matter' Near White House

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‘There was a dispute this week about whose street this is. Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear…’

(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the District’s Public Works deparment to spray paint “Black Lives Matter” on 16th Ave., which leads to the White House, NBC News reported.
Bowser decreed the show of support for BLM, a neo-Marxist organization, on Friday after she evicted the National Guard from the District’s hotels.
“There are people who are craving to be heard and to be seen, and to have their humanity recognized, and we had the opportunity to send that message loud and clear on a very important street in our city,” Bowser said at a press conference.
Construction workers placed new street signs to designate the area “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”


Bowser ordered the political statement to be spray-painted with taxpayer dollars in an effort to demonstrate that Washington, D.C. does not belong to President Donald Trump.
“There was a dispute this week about whose street this is,” said John Falcicchio, Bowser’s chief of staff, in a tweet. “Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear that this is DC’s street and to honor demonstrators who [were] peacefully protesting on Monday evening.”
Trump criticized her on Twitter for mistreating the National Guard.

Project Veritas: Antifa Training Sessions Teach 'Aggression,' Beatings, Eye-Gouging

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‘If you get a good liver or kidney shot, it’s pretty much crippling them…’

(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Video evidence and testimony from an undercover Antifa member have revealed that the left-wing insurrectionist group trains its members for street violence, Project Veritas reported.

According to the recent expose, in which a Project Veritas journalist was able to infiltrate the group, an Antifa chapter in New York City serves as a fight club.
In the undercover video, the Antifa fighting instructor called “Chris” trains members for engaging in violent street clashes with law-enforcement and others..
“If you get a good liver or kidney shot, it’s pretty much crippling them,” Chris said. “They’re going to be doubled over and in a lot of pain. If you break one of the floating ribs, which are small and right down here. Those are also very painful, it’s hard to move after that, to catch a breath.”
“So, one good body shot could potentially give you all the time in the world to run away while they’re doubled over in pain, or really put a beating on them after that if you really want to make it personal,” he said.
Antifa terrorists at the training session laughed after he talked about putting “a beating on them.”
Antifa instructor Chris said “self-defense” needs to be defined more broadly as ‘I will not be f**ked with.'”
His training sessions show Antifa terrorists how to inflict the most damage on combatants, not simply how to defend themselves.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, if that doesn’t knock them out, then yeah. The nose, the eyes, poke the eyes… Absolutely,” Chris said.
In another clip, he said the purpose of the training sessions is to “practice aggression,” not self-defense.
“Not aggression against one another, but really just a space that, if you want to or if you want to challenge yourself, to kind of work on harnessing that kind of energy,” he said.
In another video, a journalist with Project Veritas talks about his experience inside Antifa.
“They do not hesitate to either push back or incite some kind of violence. In our classes and in our meetings, before we do any sort of demonstration or Black Bloc, we talk about weapons detail and what we carry and what we should have,” the undercover journalist said.
Black Bloc refers to rioters who walk through the streets in all black clothing, with their faces covered, looking for opportunities to commit crimes, instigate fights, and stir fear in the public.
“Depending on the setting, if I were to be caught or found out in a setting where I am present with them, it could escalate to violence against me,” the undercover journalist  said.

Project Veritas’ reporting confirms Attorney General Bill Barr’s assertion that Antifa and other radical leftist organizations have been preparing for violence with military-style tactics.
President Donald Trump announced that the Justice Department will designate Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, as a terrorist organization, which will give the federal government greater authority in suppressing and prosecuting the group’s violence.
“Our second #EXPOSEANTIFA installment, demonstrates just how far the group will go to engage in physical combat, evade arrests and promote the most damage possible on the streets,” said James O’Keefe CEO and founder of Project Veritas.

Megan Rapinoe, Jane Fonda, Other Leftist Celebs Want to ‘Defund the Police’

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‘It’s poor communities that need higher levels of attention and engagement from the police to produce good policing, to make people feel safe…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) U.S. Women’s Soccer star Megan Rapinoe and dozens of other leftist celebrities, such as John Legend and Jane Fonda, have signed an open letter demanding the “divestment from police.”

The letter, titled “A Letter to demand Divestment from Police and an Investment in Black Communities,” accuses law enforcement of actively harming the black community.

It demands that resources typically reserved for robust police departments be reallocated to health-care or housing costs.

“Despite continued profiling, harassment, terror and killing of Black communities, local and federal decision-makers continue to invest in the police, which leaves Black people vulnerable and our communities no safer,” the letter states.

Instead, the activists argue, the money should “go towards building healthy communities, to the health of our elders and children, to neighborhood infrastructure, to education, to childcare, to support a vibrant Black future.”

The letter ends by encouraging local officials to “vote no on all increases to police budgets,” “vote yes to decrease police spending and budgets,” and “vote yes to increase spending on healthcare, education, and community programs that keep us safe.”

An alarming number of people have begun to support the radical “defund the police” movement in light of George Floyd’s death and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement.

But Fox News’s Juan Williams explained this week how this policy would disproportionately hurt poor minority neighborhoods: “To me, it’s poor communities that need higher levels of attention and engagement from the police to produce good policing, to make people feel safe in their homes and in terms of their stores, property, and the rest,” he said.

Minneapolis City Council Seriously Weighs Disbanding the Police Department

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‘The whole world is watching, and we can declare policing as we know it a thing of the past…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) The Minneapolis City Council is seriously considering “disbanding” the city’s police department in light of George Floyd’s death, according to council member Steve Fletcher.

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Fletcher said that he and other council members are “working on finding out what it would take to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and start fresh with a community-oriented, non-violent public safety and outreach capacity.”

“The whole world is watching, and we can declare policing as we know it a thing of the past,” he added.

At least three other city council members echoed Fletcher’s concerns, including council members Alondra Cano and Lisa Bender:

Some in the council have been attempting to reduce the funding and power of the MPD for years, according to City Pages. But now that protesters have taken to Minneapolis’s streets, they believe there is a real chance that they could completely disband the MPD for good.

Not one member, however, has explained what exactly the “new model of public safety” would look like, or how it would protect Minneapolis’s citizens from crime.

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